Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean visited E6NanoFab, which is an integrated research and development facility at NUS Engineering March 20. NUS President Professor Tan Eng Chye and NUS Deputy President (Research and Technology) Professor Chen Tsuhan, as well as representatives from the National Research Foundation and NUS Engineering also joined him.

E6NanoFab includes class 10, class 100, class 1000 and class 10,000 cleanrooms. During the visit of DPM Teo, Professor Aaron Thean, Director of E6NanoFab gave him an overview of the state-of-the-art cleanroom facilities and advanced process and material characterisation capabilities offered by the nanofabrication facility.

Prof Thean is also the Director of the Hybrid Integrated Flexible Electronic Systems (HiFES) programme, which is an initiative, taken by NUS and Faculty of Engineering to spearhead innovations in hybrid flexible electronics.

He is also Co-director of the Applied Materials-NUS Advanced Materials Corporate Lab (AMAT-NUS Advanced Materials Corporate Lab) that combines Applied Materials’ leading expertise in materials engineering and semiconductor technologies with NUS’ world-class and multi-disciplinary R&D capabilities that span applied chemistry, materials science and microelectronics process engineering.

Prof Thean shared with DPM Teo the current projects and research progress under the programme and at the laboratory.

“Hosted in E6NanoFab, the HiFES programme seeks to spearhead innovations in hybrid flexible electronics while the AMAT-NUS Advanced Materials Corporate Lab aims to accelerate the discovery and commercialisation of new materials for manufacturing next-generation semiconductors,” the statement added.

DPM Teo, the member of the governing People’s Action Party, visited a cleanroom that houses advanced atomic layer processing equipment essential for the production of next-generation semiconductor electronics. He was given a demonstration of how the image of a nanoscale structure can be “characterised” or viewed with scanning electron microscopes (SEM) in the SEM Characterisation Laboratory.

The Researchers and staff from the HiFES programme also communicated with DPM Teo and shared their projects and work experience with him.

Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean visited E6NanoFab, which is an integrated research and development facility at NUS Engineering March 20. NUS President Professor Tan Eng Chye and NUS Deputy President (Research and Technology) Professor Chen Tsuhan, as well as representatives from the National Research Foundation and NUS Engineering also joined him.

E6NanoFab includes class 10, class 100, class 1000 and class 10,000 cleanrooms. During the visit of DPM Teo, Professor Aaron Thean, Director of E6NanoFab gave him an overview of the state-of-the-art cleanroom facilities and advanced process and material characterisation capabilities offered by the nanofabrication facility.

Prof Thean is also the Director of the Hybrid Integrated Flexible Electronic Systems (HiFES) programme, which is an initiative, taken by NUS and Faculty of Engineering to spearhead innovations in hybrid flexible electronics.

He is also Co-director of the Applied Materials-NUS Advanced Materials Corporate Lab (AMAT-NUS Advanced Materials Corporate Lab) that combines Applied Materials’ leading expertise in materials engineering and semiconductor technologies with NUS’ world-class and multi-disciplinary R&D capabilities that span applied chemistry, materials science and microelectronics process engineering.

Prof Thean shared with DPM Teo the current projects and research progress under the programme and at the laboratory.

“Hosted in E6NanoFab, the HiFES programme seeks to spearhead innovations in hybrid flexible electronics while the AMAT-NUS Advanced Materials Corporate Lab aims to accelerate the discovery and commercialisation of new materials for manufacturing next-generation semiconductors,” the statement added.

DPM Teo, the member of the governing People’s Action Party, visited a cleanroom that houses advanced atomic layer processing equipment essential for the production of next-generation semiconductor electronics. He was given a demonstration of how the image of a nanoscale structure can be “characterised” or viewed with scanning electron microscopes (SEM) in the SEM Characterisation Laboratory.

The Researchers and staff from the HiFES programme also communicated with DPM Teo and shared their projects and work experience with him.

On 20 March 2019, at the invitation of Prof Aaron Thean, Director of HiFES programme, Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean and Prof Low Teck Seng, CEO of National Research Foundation visited E6NanoFab at Faculty of Engineering. During the two and a half hour event, Prof Aaron Thean presented to DPM Teo, NRF and NUS top management on the need for nano-makerspace facility in NUS to incubate new technology and briefly introduced HiFES programme, an initiative by NUS to spearhead hybrid-integrated flexible and stretchable electronics; E6NanoFab, NUS’ state-of-the-art multi-disciplinary research facilities and Applied Materials-NUS Advanced Materials Corporate Lab.

After the presentation, DPM Teo and NRF officials toured the cleanroom and metrology lab.

NUS scientists have taken inspiration from underwater invertebrates like jellyfish to create an electronic skin with similar functionality.

Just like a jellyfish, the electronic skin is transparent, stretchable, touch-sensitive, and self-healing in aquatic environments. It can be used in everything from water-resistant touchscreens to aquatic soft robots.

The team, led by NUS Materials Science and Engineering Assistant Professor Benjamin Tee, worked with collaborators from Tsinghua University and the University of California Riverside spending just over a year to develop the material. Its invention was featured as the front cover of the journal Nature Electronics on 15 February 2019.